I'm a Systems Design Engineering student at the University of Waterloo whos enjoys building solutions to everyday problems!
- SWE Intern @ Stripe, building ML models and evaluation services to predict payment network costs, optimizing Stripe’s largest expense 💸
- Prev. SWE Intern @ Snowflake, tuning auto-scaling and load balancing policies for all of Snowflake's traffic ❄️
- Prev. SWE Intern @ Datadog, architecting distributed caching and streaming observability pipelines
- Researching synchronization techniques and locks for persistent memory as a URA @ UWaterloo
- Building tech for social good @ UW Blueprint 🛠️
- Payments and transaction cost modeling, the cost of moving money and how we can optimize it
- Systems that model fees, execution costs, routing decisions, and their impact on business-level P&L
- Agents, MCP, and how to build reliable LLM-powered systems
- Distributed and performant Go systems
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/anniecai2004
Email: ajcai@uwaterloo.ca
